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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 12:01:37 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 12:01:37 +0000 |
commit | de848d9e9146434817c65d74d1d0313e9d729462 (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 1.4.0.upstream/1.4.0upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/modules/pam_faillock/faillock.8 b/modules/pam_faillock/faillock.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ba58aa --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_faillock/faillock.8 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: faillock +.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section] +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 06/08/2020 +.\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual +.\" Source: Linux-PAM Manual +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "FAILLOCK" "8" "06/08/2020" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux\-PAM Manual" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +faillock \- Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP \w'\fBfaillock\fR\ 'u +\fBfaillock\fR [\-\-dir\ \fI/path/to/tally\-directory\fR] [\-\-user\ \fIusername\fR] [\-\-reset] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +The +\fIpam_faillock\&.so\fR +module maintains a list of failed authentication attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in case there were more than +\fIdeny\fR +consecutive failed authentications\&. It stores the failure records into per\-user files in the tally directory\&. +.PP +The +\fBfaillock\fR +command is an application which can be used to examine and modify the contents of the tally files\&. It can display the recent failed authentication attempts of the +\fIusername\fR +or clear the tally files of all or individual +\fIusernames\fR\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +\fB\-\-dir \fR\fB\fI/path/to/tally\-directory\fR\fR +.RS 4 +The directory where the user files with the failure records are kept\&. The default is +/var/run/faillock\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-user \fR\fB\fIusername\fR\fR +.RS 4 +The user whose failure records should be displayed or cleared\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-reset\fR +.RS 4 +Instead of displaying the user\*(Aqs failure records, clear them\&. +.RE +.SH "FILES" +.PP +/var/run/faillock/* +.RS 4 +the files logging the authentication failures for users +.RE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +\fBpam_faillock\fR(8), +\fBpam\fR(8) +.SH "AUTHOR" +.PP +faillock was written by Tomas Mraz\&. |